Jan 12, 2014, 9:38 am
Last edit by: ChrisFlyer66
This is the thread for posts through 2016. The new thread for 2017 is http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1826119-billpay-walmart-2017-a.html
Bill Pay cannot be done at a regular register.
It must be done at Customer Service/Returns.
Or at the Money Center in stores that have it.
BUSINESS DAY transaction completion time is 18:59:59 EST
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WM offers two BP services: CheckFreePAY and MoneyGram. The cashier can initiate CheckFreePAY by selecting Money Services followed by Bill Pay on the register for a fee of $1-1.88. Moneygram is $4.99.
Once your CFP account is set up, you can add cc. When you want to BP give them your phone# to look up your account under Money Services. They often get confused and think you want MG, but just say it is under Money Services.
ONLY 4 successful debit card swipes can pay for a transaction.
ONLY 5 payments per 16 digit account number per rolling 30 days.
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:-:VISA and MC
If your particular card isn't on the list below, try "VISA" or "MASTERCARD."
"VISA" and "MASTERCARD" payee can no longer be found by search at some stores. If the employee can no longer find "VISA" or "MASTERCARD" by searching in CheckFreePAY, then you cannot pay either, end of story.
Following do not work:
$1.88 next day.
$1.88 next day.
:-:Issuing Bank
Discover - Use for all Discover network cards
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
American Express AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) cannot be paid through CheckFreePAY. Some AMEX cards issued by other banks can be paid.
AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) can be paid using MoneyGram for $4.99
Barclay Listed under barclay - need biller zip - $1.50 next day, $1.00 three days
Bank of America Consumer Loans - Use for BoA-issued and FIA-issued cards; will not work for BofA Small Business cards.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days. (Will require a ZIP but apparently yours will work as well as theirs, which is 19886)[INDENT]Works:
$1.50 next day.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
For money order questions, check the following threads and their wiki posts:
Bill Pay cannot be done at a regular register.
It must be done at Customer Service/Returns.
Or at the Money Center in stores that have it.
BUSINESS DAY transaction completion time is 18:59:59 EST
Friday after 06:59PM EST, until Monday BEFORE 07:00PM EST arrives Tuesday
Tuesday BEFORE 7:00PM arrives Wednesday
Wednesday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Thursday
Thursday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Friday
Friday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Monday
But when a next-day payment will post and be visible depends upon the CC issuer.Tuesday BEFORE 7:00PM arrives Wednesday
Wednesday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Thursday
Thursday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Friday
Friday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Monday
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WM offers two BP services: CheckFreePAY and MoneyGram. The cashier can initiate CheckFreePAY by selecting Money Services followed by Bill Pay on the register for a fee of $1-1.88. Moneygram is $4.99.
Once your CFP account is set up, you can add cc. When you want to BP give them your phone# to look up your account under Money Services. They often get confused and think you want MG, but just say it is under Money Services.
ONLY 4 successful debit card swipes can pay for a transaction.
ONLY 5 payments per 16 digit account number per rolling 30 days.
--------------------------------------------
:-:VISA and MC
If your particular card isn't on the list below, try "VISA" or "MASTERCARD."
"VISA" and "MASTERCARD" payee can no longer be found by search at some stores. If the employee can no longer find "VISA" or "MASTERCARD" by searching in CheckFreePAY, then you cannot pay either, end of story.
Following do not work:
Any and all Vanilla VISA, Vanilla MC, and OneVanilla VISA.
Glimcher VISA
MASTERCARDGlimcher VISA
$1.88 next day.
Works:
VISABank of America Cash Rewards Business MC
Barclay (Arrival, US Airways) MC - Posts at 11PM EST, credit available 1AM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold MC
Citi AAdvantage (Platinum Select, Executive, Business) MC - Posts at 3AM EST (+1 day)
Citi ThankYou Preferred MC
CitiBusiness Platinum Select MC
Does not work:Barclay (Arrival, US Airways) MC - Posts at 11PM EST, credit available 1AM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold MC
Citi AAdvantage (Platinum Select, Executive, Business) MC - Posts at 3AM EST (+1 day)
Citi ThankYou Preferred MC
CitiBusiness Platinum Select MC
Barclay Business US Airways MC - NOT PAYABLE - tried 2x
$1.88 next day.
Works:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barclay Priceline VS
Chase (Amazon, Freedom, Sapphire Preferred, United, Slate) VS - Posts at 10PM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold VS
Citi (AAdvantage, Dividend, ThankYou Preferred) VS
FIA Fidelity VS
PNC CashBuilder VS
US Bank (Cash+, Club Carlson, Flexperks) VS
Wells Fargo Cashback VS
Does not work:Chase (Amazon, Freedom, Sapphire Preferred, United, Slate) VS - Posts at 10PM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold VS
Citi (AAdvantage, Dividend, ThankYou Preferred) VS
FIA Fidelity VS
PNC CashBuilder VS
US Bank (Cash+, Club Carlson, Flexperks) VS
Wells Fargo Cashback VS
TD Bank VS - [Source]
:-:Issuing Bank
Discover - Use for all Discover network cards
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
American Express AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) cannot be paid through CheckFreePAY. Some AMEX cards issued by other banks can be paid.
AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) can be paid using MoneyGram for $4.99
Barclay Listed under barclay - need biller zip - $1.50 next day, $1.00 three days
Bank of America Consumer Loans - Use for BoA-issued and FIA-issued cards; will not work for BofA Small Business cards.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days. (Will require a ZIP but apparently yours will work as well as theirs, which is 19886)[INDENT]Works:
FIA Fidelity VS & MC
BoA Alaska Airlines Visa
Does not work: Capital OneBoA Alaska Airlines Visa
$1.50 next day.
Personal and business CCs
Citibank American Express - Use for Citi-issued AMEX cards$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
Citi AAdvantage AMEX
PNC Bank - Use for PNC-issued Visa network cards$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
PNC CashBuilder VS
Warning: Some users have reported being shutdown for using bill pay services.For money order questions, check the following threads and their wiki posts:
Billpay at Walmart(2013-2016)
Nov 12, 2014, 10:49 am
#3153
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: PHL based
Programs: USAir, UA, AA, BA, Hyatt, HHonors, SPG, Marriott, IHG
Posts: 356
Anyone have an issue with the WM POS terminal locking up at the third debit swipe, requiring the POS terminal to be rebooted? Not the full computer, just the terminal where you swipe your debit card? I've got a WM where this is happening, it's a pain, so I'm limiting my swipes to 2, but would love to do another $500 per trip if there's an easier workaround then rebooting the terminal?
Thanks
Thanks
Nov 12, 2014, 11:18 am
#3154
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 688
Anyone have an issue with the WM POS terminal locking up at the third debit swipe, requiring the POS terminal to be rebooted? Not the full computer, just the terminal where you swipe your debit card? I've got a WM where this is happening, it's a pain, so I'm limiting my swipes to 2, but would love to do another $500 per trip if there's an easier workaround then rebooting the terminal?
Thanks
Thanks
Nov 12, 2014, 11:22 am
#3155
Join Date: May 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: WN A+, AA, HYATT DIAMOND, SPG
Posts: 1,125
Anyone have an issue with the WM POS terminal locking up at the third debit swipe, requiring the POS terminal to be rebooted? Not the full computer, just the terminal where you swipe your debit card? I've got a WM where this is happening, it's a pain, so I'm limiting my swipes to 2, but would love to do another $500 per trip if there's an easier workaround then rebooting the terminal?
Thanks
Thanks
POS terminal that freezes reads 'Cannot process' and is frozen. Must reboot after the second swipe.
Nov 12, 2014, 11:23 am
#3156
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: PHL based
Programs: USAir, UA, AA, BA, Hyatt, HHonors, SPG, Marriott, IHG
Posts: 356
I don't recall exactly, but it's happened every time (5?) I've tried 3 swipes. Something to the effect of "Error - transaction could not be processed". Show's a green "OK" button that is non-responsive when pushed.
It's not just me it happens do. There's another MS'er at this location; CSR (who is very friendly) has told me it happens to him every time as well. He (the other MS'er) is the one that showed her how to reboot the POS terminal.
It's not just me it happens do. There's another MS'er at this location; CSR (who is very friendly) has told me it happens to him every time as well. He (the other MS'er) is the one that showed her how to reboot the POS terminal.
Nov 12, 2014, 11:42 am
#3157
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 721
Credit to this post...
...and also Peridot83 more recently, but...
Three different CSRs in two different stores (both with very new pinpads* FWIW) are claiming they can't find a Debit button on their keypad. I tried to find it too with their permission, but didn't wanna intrude too much and failed. Never done a BP before.
* not to confuse (my) pinpad with (their) keypad, of course
P.S. I think everybody gets the point of the posts where old-timers are chewing out others in this thread, but if the main point is "Please don't clog up the thread with non-info" then it seems to me the best option is to just ignore the offending post instead of adding to the clog LOL. Thank you.
Three different CSRs in two different stores (both with very new pinpads* FWIW) are claiming they can't find a Debit button on their keypad. I tried to find it too with their permission, but didn't wanna intrude too much and failed. Never done a BP before.
* not to confuse (my) pinpad with (their) keypad, of course
P.S. I think everybody gets the point of the posts where old-timers are chewing out others in this thread, but if the main point is "Please don't clog up the thread with non-info" then it seems to me the best option is to just ignore the offending post instead of adding to the clog LOL. Thank you.
Nov 12, 2014, 12:22 pm
#3158
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 688
I don't recall exactly, but it's happened every time (5?) I've tried 3 swipes. Something to the effect of "Error - transaction could not be processed". Show's a green "OK" button that is non-responsive when pushed.
It's not just me it happens do. There's another MS'er at this location; CSR (who is very friendly) has told me it happens to him every time as well. He (the other MS'er) is the one that showed her how to reboot the POS terminal.
It's not just me it happens do. There's another MS'er at this location; CSR (who is very friendly) has told me it happens to him every time as well. He (the other MS'er) is the one that showed her how to reboot the POS terminal.
"For Billpay, they enter $500 AFTER you swipe AND enter the pin.
If you are doing $1,998.12, this will be 4 $500 swipes. After the 3rd swipe, you get a message "Unable to process (i think)", just press ok. The next screen seems to be frozen so you press 'cancel', and then you can finally swipe the 4th card. I've gotten used to this workaround which i ALWAYS encounter at the three Walmarts I go to. "
Nov 12, 2014, 12:24 pm
#3159
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: PHL based
Programs: USAir, UA, AA, BA, Hyatt, HHonors, SPG, Marriott, IHG
Posts: 356
Try this, i posted this previously.
"For Billpay, they enter $500 AFTER you swipe AND enter the pin.
If you are doing $1,998.12, this will be 4 $500 swipes. After the 3rd swipe, you get a message "Unable to process (i think)", just press ok. The next screen seems to be frozen so you press 'cancel', and then you can finally swipe the 4th card. I've gotten used to this workaround which i ALWAYS encounter at the three Walmarts I go to. "
"For Billpay, they enter $500 AFTER you swipe AND enter the pin.
If you are doing $1,998.12, this will be 4 $500 swipes. After the 3rd swipe, you get a message "Unable to process (i think)", just press ok. The next screen seems to be frozen so you press 'cancel', and then you can finally swipe the 4th card. I've gotten used to this workaround which i ALWAYS encounter at the three Walmarts I go to. "
Nov 12, 2014, 2:55 pm
#3160
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist No More..., Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond, SPG Platinum, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 4,375
Make sure that they are using CheckFreePay and no MoneyGram bill pay.
Nov 13, 2014, 6:08 am
#3161
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 202
The $1998 WMBP I made Tuesday morning to my Arrival Plus (Mastercard) hasn't posted yet.
Wiki: Tuesday posts on Wednesday night /Thursday morning
It has been several months since I have seen a late posting, and then it typically was over a weekend, not during the week.
Wiki: Tuesday posts on Wednesday night /Thursday morning
It has been several months since I have seen a late posting, and then it typically was over a weekend, not during the week.
Nov 13, 2014, 6:45 am
#3162
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: SAN
Posts: 40
On Tuesday morning, I made an Arrival Plus (Mastercard) and Discover payment. Thus far, neither has posted.
Nov 13, 2014, 6:53 am
#3163
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 688
The $1998 WMBP I made Tuesday morning to my Arrival Plus (Mastercard) hasn't posted yet.
Wiki: Tuesday posts on Wednesday night /Thursday morning
It has been several months since I have seen a late posting, and then it typically was over a weekend, not during the week.
Wiki: Tuesday posts on Wednesday night /Thursday morning
It has been several months since I have seen a late posting, and then it typically was over a weekend, not during the week.
Nov 13, 2014, 7:42 am
#3165
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 34
Update: all payments posted now.
Last edited by jltmiles; Nov 13, 2014 at 10:30 pm